Incubous

The term incubous describes the way in which the leaves of a liverwort are attached to the stem.

If one were to look down from above (dorsal side) on a plant where the leaf attachment is incubous, the upper edge of each leaf would overlap the next higher leaf along the stem.

[1] The opposite of incubous is succubous.

The dictionary definition of incubous at Wiktionary

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